HAPPY-GO-LUCKY GAMBLER
LOST £9000 ON ONE CARD. I GAVE WOMAN £25,000. Major Jack Coats, miliionaire sportsman. who died of heart failure in his Park Lane flat, had the reputation of a happy-go-lucky gambler who never broke his promise. He was co-heir with his brother to a fortune of £4,000,000 left hy their father, a member of the Coats cotton family Major Coats returned in 1930, after incurring colossal losses at Deauville, to a quiet family party in London, where he agreed at his relatives earnest plea to forswear gambling, his greatest thrill. He had lost and won £9000 at a turn of a card, won £40,000 in an afternoon in Paris, and lost £80,000 at Deauville at night. Once he promised a wtlathy woman friend half his winnings if he made £50,000. He honoured the promise, despite her reluctance, returned to the table, and lost his own half of the winnings, and a large additional sum. L'EANK CROSLAND, liairdresscr, wishes to notify his numerous customers that he has started business in conjunction with Ray Dufty m Mr. Mau's Hairdressing- Saloon, Tutanekai Street. Ladies and Gentlemen get your hair cut by expert hairdressers. Satisfaction guaranteed. FRANIC CROSLAND. RAY DUFTY.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 288, 30 July 1932, Page 2
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